How strange this seems to me. If I dial up the Internet and I'm on-line, then why would I need to see if I'm on-line?
As far as seeing if a certain website is "up", would that be like you try to go to a site and that stupid, irritating "Page Cannot Be Found" thing comes up, so you "ping" the site to see if it's "up"?
Hope I'm not bugging you with the stupid questions